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EYL #108 Freedom · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 4: All right, guys, welcome back Erni a Lisia. This is
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  Speaker 4: a highly anticipated episode. We get back in our second home, Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 4: Every time we come in a different location, man shout
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  Speaker 4: out to all the good people of Atlanta, shouts all
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  Speaker 4: the good people in Georgia, everybody in the South. So
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  Speaker 4: our second biggest market.
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  Speaker 3: That's a fact. That's a fact.
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  Speaker 5: So we got allowed to love out here.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, on Instagram, we kind of gauge things
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  Speaker 4: to see, like the public interest. So we first a
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  Speaker 4: few months ago put a story up that a town
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  Speaker 4: was for sale, like tom I think it was Tom'sborough Toombsboro,
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  Speaker 4: and everybody was going crazy. It wasn't really too much
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  Speaker 4: details about it. Everybody was going crazy like yo, you
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  Speaker 4: should buy that Black Wall Street. Da Da da, And
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  Speaker 4: then kind of just died down, nothing happened.
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  Speaker 5: And then like a couple of weeks ago, put his story.
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  Speaker 4: Up about nineteen black families that actually purchased ninety seven
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  Speaker 4: acres I think outside of that in Wilkinson County, Georgia,
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  Speaker 4: and it went crazy.
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  Speaker 5: It went viral like what's going on?
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  Speaker 4: And everybody was It was all kinds of comments like
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  Speaker 4: this is dope, this new Black Wall Street.
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  Speaker 5: People like no, this is racist, it's all black.
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  Speaker 6: Definitely, social media is crazy.
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  Speaker 5: It was definitely social media is crazy.
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  Speaker 4: It was like it was like a thousand comments, like
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  Speaker 4: going back and forth with each other. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: time had passed and Troy had actually reached out to
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  Speaker 4: me to ians too.
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  Speaker 6: As as I was watching it, she texted me the
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  Speaker 6: CNN video that you had. I was like, oh, I'm
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  Speaker 6: ready on this. I was like, we got a shot
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  Speaker 6: to see this. Yeah, And so part of it was
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  Speaker 6: like we said, yo, who wants to get them on? Like, yo,
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  Speaker 6: if y'all know them, hit us up. And our good friend,
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  Speaker 6: our partner, Ian Dunlap, was like, yo, I know one
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  Speaker 6: of them, do is? And he got me the number.
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  Speaker 6: He screenshot at me. He's like, yo, here's the number
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  Speaker 6: to one of them. My name is Ashley. And I
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  Speaker 6: was like, mat, I'm on it. I said, I'm on it,
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  Speaker 6: And so I hit Ashley up and she was like, hey,
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  Speaker 6: how you doing. I'm like, hey, Alisia. I knew she
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  Speaker 6: didn't know who he was about to respond. And so
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  Speaker 6: when we finally got to talk and she said, listen,
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  Speaker 6: I just spoke to my team and they know you
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  Speaker 6: and they love, love, love the show, and they said
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  Speaker 6: we would love to do it and they have to come.
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  Speaker 6: They have to come. So shout out shout out to
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  Speaker 6: Greg and shout out to to Kevin pumping us up
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  Speaker 6: and following that man because that led to this and
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  Speaker 6: your story is incredible. So I can't wait to share
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  Speaker 6: it with the world. Yeah yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah for sure.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, So nineteen black families purchased ninety seven acres
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  Speaker 4: of land and they're actually building a community and it
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  Speaker 4: was interesting. So this is with the conversation that we're
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  Speaker 4: going to have. Now we have three members of the community.
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  Speaker 4: We have actually Scott, we have Kevin James, and we
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  Speaker 4: have Greg Mullins and very close, very close shout out
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  Speaker 4: to g he has he has a brother named Greg Millings. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's very close. So this is just a really a
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  Speaker 4: really encouraging story. And you know, if you follow earnerly,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we like to give the back stories. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure when people heard about this, it's one thing
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  Speaker 4: to say, Okay, that's inspirational, that's motivational, but like, what's
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  Speaker 4: the technical side, Like how do you just buy a community?
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  Speaker 4: Like how do you you know, have plumbing, how do
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  Speaker 4: you have how do you have a farm? How do
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  Speaker 4: you have all this stuff? So these are you know,
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  Speaker 4: hopefully the conversation that we can have. So first and foremost,
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  Speaker 4: thank you guys for for joining us.
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  Speaker 5: Appreciate it, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: So let's jump right into it, all right, So how
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  Speaker 4: do we get the idea to buy a community? Because
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  Speaker 4: I was reading some some research and it was like
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  Speaker 4: around the time I believe around George Floyd situation, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, it was obviously a lot of still is
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  Speaker 4: a lot of civil unrest and defund the police, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, group economics is a common theme. So how
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  Speaker 4: did this come about to say, okay, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna buy a community and build a community.
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  Speaker 6: Because before you, I'll be honest with you, when I
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  Speaker 6: saw the meme, I was like, ain't real. But y'all
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  Speaker 6: saw it and said, let's take gotch what happened?
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  Speaker 8: But well, first off, I always have to correct people
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  Speaker 8: first and foremost, we didn't actually buy the town of Toombsboro. Okay, yes,
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  Speaker 8: we bought eight minutes away from Toombsboro in unincorporated Wilkinson County,
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  Speaker 8: And so when we first got down there, we were
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  Speaker 8: just going to be nosy. We was like, somebody fitting
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  Speaker 8: to buy town. Let's go see what's up. Myself, my
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  Speaker 8: good friend Renee, my friend Q and her lover Steve
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  Speaker 8: we all got on the got in the car and
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  Speaker 8: we was like, we're gonna go. I'm a real estate agent.
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  Speaker 2: And it's always so important the network, and there was
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  Speaker 2: so much going on. I'm like, this is my neck
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  Speaker 2: of the woods. I'm going down there. So when Renee.
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  Speaker 8: Brought it to us, because we're firm believers and affirmations
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  Speaker 8: and so we were.
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  Speaker 2: She's my account ability partner.
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  Speaker 8: So on the morning when Toombsboro first went viral, we
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  Speaker 8: were doing our affirmations and she was like, did you
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  Speaker 8: see the email I sent you about the Tombsborough going viral?
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  Speaker 2: I was like, nope, but.
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  Speaker 8: If I'm down, if we can buy a town for
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  Speaker 8: one point seven million dollars, let's figure it out. And
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  Speaker 8: so when we got down there, it was interesting because
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  Speaker 8: I was like, let's going to be a lot of work,
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  Speaker 8: Like the buildings are in complete need of renovation, except
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  Speaker 8: for some of the residents. It was like thirty it's
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  Speaker 8: thirty six parcels and was called an assemblage of land
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  Speaker 8: on forty six acres, and they were mostly commercial properties
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  Speaker 8: that needed some work.
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  Speaker 2: And one thing about commercial.
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  Speaker 8: Properties is it costs a lot more money to fix
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  Speaker 8: up a commercial property than a residential property because the
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  Speaker 8: fees for contractors are substantially higher, and the permits, impact fees,
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  Speaker 8: all of the stuff that goes on with a commercial
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  Speaker 8: renovation is exorbitant. So we were like, Okay, it's potential
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  Speaker 8: here for sure. It's about four hundred and ninety five
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  Speaker 8: people who actually live in the city of Tombsboro.
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  Speaker 2: It's predominantly black. They have a black mayor, black chief
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  Speaker 2: of police.
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  Speaker 8: So in my mind, I was like, there's definitely something here.
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  Speaker 8: There was like fifty other black real estate agents investors
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  Speaker 8: who were there at the open house that day, and
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  Speaker 8: from what we've heard through the grapevine is that a
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  Speaker 8: black woman from Philly actually ended up purchasing that assemblage.
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  Speaker 8: But it didn't come with the town, like it wasn't
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  Speaker 8: the city. There's still a mayor, they got their own
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  Speaker 8: city hall, there's a whole bunch of other people who
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  Speaker 8: still lived there. It was just thirty six different commercial
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  Speaker 8: spaces and a few residential units, and in my eyes,
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  Speaker 8: for one point seven million, I was like, this is
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  Speaker 8: still going to be a long haul to innovate. And
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  Speaker 8: we were like, let's look and see what else might
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  Speaker 8: be available, because somebody gonna do it might not be us.
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  Speaker 8: Somebody's gonna do it. So it was just like, let's
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  Speaker 8: see what opportunity might be available. So right down the street,
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  Speaker 8: eight minutes away, we found this ninety six acres of land.
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  Speaker 8: It was at a price that I was like, you
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  Speaker 8: know what, if we get enough people together, we can
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  Speaker 8: easily afford this. And Renee, that's my ace and we
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  Speaker 8: always talk about how important it is to have you know,
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  Speaker 8: one or two or three together can go further faster, right,
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  Speaker 8: So she was like, yo, I'm definitely down.
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  Speaker 2: We can do this ourselves.
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  Speaker 8: And I was like, well it was raw land, like
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  Speaker 8: ninety six acres of nothing but trees and land Georgia
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  Speaker 8: red dirt. And so we were like the infrastructure, Like
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  Speaker 8: you said, how would we put water in electricity?
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  Speaker 2: It was there is some road frontage on.
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  Speaker 8: The main side of the street, but on the other
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  Speaker 8: side of the street it's a dirt. We would have
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  Speaker 8: to either work with the county to get paved or
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  Speaker 8: pave ourselves. So me, being a business person, a real
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  Speaker 8: estate agent, I was like, it's gonna be a lot
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  Speaker 8: more infrastructure beyond just the purchase and acquiring of the land.
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  Speaker 8: And that's when we were in the car. We just
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  Speaker 8: looked at each other. I was like, I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 8: ten of my friends. She's like, I'll get ten of
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  Speaker 8: my friends, and let's go ahead and by this land
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  Speaker 8: and let's do this together. Let's build our own subdivision,
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  Speaker 8: let's build our own community. And so at the time
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  Speaker 8: in the car, I didn't know that it wasn't Toombsboro.
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  Speaker 8: After we started doing our due diligence period, that's when
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  Speaker 8: we found out it was an unincorporated Wilkinson County.
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  Speaker 6: So what's the difference between unincorporated and incorporated.
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  Speaker 8: The big difference is the taxes and whether or not
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  Speaker 8: it has a charter. And when you have a charter
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  Speaker 8: for an actual city that's recognized by the state, you
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  Speaker 8: now get state funding in state income that comes from
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  Speaker 8: your being a city. So all of the money that
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  Speaker 8: the state collects from sales tax blows all the different
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  Speaker 8: ways that the state makes money. When you are actual
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  Speaker 8: charter based on your population, you get a piece of
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  Speaker 8: that money for your city. And so typically the county
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  Speaker 8: and the unincorporated parts that is the jurisdiction of the
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  Speaker 8: county and you only have to deal with the county
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  Speaker 8: and the state and not the city. And then when
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  Speaker 8: you have an actual charter city, you got the city
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  Speaker 8: that makes the rules, has its own budgets, has its
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  Speaker 8: own city police, has its own fire departments. So by
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  Speaker 8: getting in that unincorporated part, that gives us the ability
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  Speaker 8: to start write a charter, to start creating our own jurisdiction.
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  Speaker 6: So then you would be able to create your own
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  Speaker 6: police force, your own fire department, your own schools.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, gotcha, and you'll be able to have your own
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  Speaker 4: political how's that working.
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  Speaker 8: So it would be a mayor and a city council.
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  Speaker 8: You'd have your city manager, your county clerk, or it's
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  Speaker 8: not your county, your city clerk, your city judge.
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  Speaker 4: So pretty much, it was a plot of land that
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  Speaker 4: was under the counties. It's in the county, but it wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: Under a city's jis.
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  Speaker 5: It was juris at all.
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  Speaker 8: Under the county and the state. So some counties have
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  Speaker 8: more restrictions than others.
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  Speaker 2: And the good thing about being in the South is
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  Speaker 2: that we.
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  Speaker 8: Have this idea of not being involved in big government.
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  Speaker 8: That's really what the South really was fighting for. It's
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  Speaker 8: fighting for a lot of stuff, but this idea that
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  Speaker 8: you can't tell me what to do.
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  Speaker 2: I get to determine for myself.
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  Speaker 8: How I treat my property, how I treat my my business,
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  Speaker 8: my livelihood, my justice.
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  Speaker 2: My property.
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  Speaker 8: That's the ideology of the South is that we want
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  Speaker 8: smaller government and more control over our local politics, our
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  Speaker 8: local economy. That's that ideal. So the county doesn't have
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  Speaker 8: a lot of rules. They got Aroozona no ordinances beyond
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  Speaker 8: a two page subdivision ordinance. So when you are thinking
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  Speaker 8: about doing a concept like this, that gives you the
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  Speaker 8: room and the ability to create what you want, create
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  Speaker 8: your own laws, and we have the ability to do that.
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  Speaker 8: That's the American dream is that we can create what
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  Speaker 8: we want. We can pursue liberty and justice how we choose,
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  Speaker 8: and being a law maker is all right. So we
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  Speaker 8: have to start making our own rules, making our own laws,
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  Speaker 8: and letting the law serve us for a change.
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  Speaker 2: And so I didn't come up with this.
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  Speaker 8: What happened was I watched the city of Stonecrust do
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  Speaker 8: it two years ago, and they've got a ninety eight
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  Speaker 8: point nine percent African American population.
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  Speaker 2: We got a dope black mayor named Mayor Jason.
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  Speaker 8: Larry, ninety eight point nine.
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  Speaker 5: Percent, the one like, what is that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a couple of white folks, you.
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  Speaker 8: Know, before we came and started building our city.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's it's on the outskirts.
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  Speaker 8: It's not it's an east it's east of Atlanta, and
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  Speaker 8: it's got beautiful landscape, Arabia Mountain, it's got the Stonecrust Mall,
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  Speaker 8: and had industry, had resources, and we just took.
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  Speaker 2: It over essentially called Stonecrust City of Stone, CT.
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  Speaker 5: How big is that?
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  Speaker 8: Don't give me the lion right now because I don't
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  Speaker 8: want to miss close, but it is. It's a it's
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  Speaker 8: a decent size if I'm not mistaken. It is one
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  Speaker 8: of the largest cities in the in the county of
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  Speaker 8: the Cab County. And so yeah, so the Cab County
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  Speaker 8: still has the jurisdiction too, and some counties are more
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  Speaker 8: hands on the others, Like the Cavs got big government here,
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  Speaker 8: Like they got a police department in jail, Yeah, like
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  Speaker 8: they got So you have to be strategic. And so
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  Speaker 8: Wilkinson County, we've been having great, exceptional experiences with the
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  Speaker 8: sheriff there, with the.
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  Speaker 2: County manager there.
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  Speaker 8: They're all black and they're cool, intelligent, Black excellence is
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  Speaker 8: what we found in Wilkinson County already and it's a
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  Speaker 8: little slower, yes, but and it's in that mode of
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  Speaker 8: wanting to develop. So we get to come here and
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  Speaker 8: we can help develop this county, which is really exciting.
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  Speaker 6: So when you decide like, yeah, we're going to do this,
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  Speaker 6: you're going to Wilson County to say like, yes, we
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  Speaker 6: want this land.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not that I.
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  Speaker 8: Go to Wilkinson County. Wilkinson County doesn't own the land.
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  Speaker 8: There are people who own the land like regular folks
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  Speaker 8: own the land. And so this particular piece of land
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  Speaker 8: was for sale, was listed for sale. It had been
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  Speaker 8: owned by released By Lumber company. So this is very wooded,
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  Speaker 8: very it's raw land, and it's six minutes away from
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  Speaker 8: the Oconee River. Six it's right along the balls Ferry
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  Speaker 8: National Park, which is a newly named national park. So
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  Speaker 8: there's just certain things as far as development is concerned,
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  Speaker 8: that makes this an exciting opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: Worter is a big one.
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  Speaker 5: So let me ask, Let me ask Kevin. Let me
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  Speaker 5: ask you this question.
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  Speaker 4: Because you're an entrepreneur, So all right, I think everybody
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  Speaker 4: has like different skill sets, right, so you you agreed
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  Speaker 4: to be you know, a founding member in this community.
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  Speaker 4: And but as an entrepreneur, you know, like no community
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  Speaker 4: can thirst can flourish without business. So did you think, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna buy into this, but we need to have
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  Speaker 4: a store. We eventually we need to have a bank.
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  Speaker 4: Like what's your thoughts on how to develop from the
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  Speaker 4: economic side of things, Like, as far as right now,
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  Speaker 4: it's just it's just land and then you guys are
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  Speaker 4: gonna build, So like, what's the steps to actually get
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  Speaker 4: it up and running the houses, stores, things that nature.
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  Speaker 7: To answer your first question, yes, I immediately started going into
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  Speaker 7: entrepreneurial mode and I was just like, okay, well, let's
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  Speaker 7: start connecting the dots.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 7: Its sound like you're building a house where you need
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  Speaker 7: to lay the foundation. That foundation is the land check.
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  Speaker 7: Now you need to put in your beams, your studs,
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  Speaker 7: your drywall, things of that nature. So we're kind of
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  Speaker 7: dressing it up. Definitely need local businesses. You know, we
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  Speaker 7: said that we want to be the change that we
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  Speaker 7: want to see in the world, and we said it
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  Speaker 7: all the time, even in the Zoom. You know, we
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  Speaker 7: need an assistant, we need an accountant, we need this,
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  Speaker 7: we need that, we let's work from it inside first,
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  Speaker 7: inside the group internally, and then if we don't have
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  Speaker 7: the skill set to do that, then we can go
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  Speaker 7: ahead and reach outward, you know.
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  Speaker 9: And that's the same thing with any business.
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  Speaker 7: You know, if you have somebody in your family that
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  Speaker 7: makes cupcakes, why are you going down the street to
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  Speaker 7: go buy cupcakes? You know, go have your auntie naked
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  Speaker 7: or what have you. So that was my whole thing
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  Speaker 7: when I got put onto it, like cool, this is
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  Speaker 7: I'm already doing this. Now we get to do this
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  Speaker 7: with eighteen other people.
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  Speaker 6: I want to go with that number eighteen or nineteen
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  Speaker 6: because I'm prior to hearing it. When I heard the story,
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, okay, And as you kind of said it,
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  Speaker 6: like I'll find out of my friends. You find none
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  Speaker 6: of your friends, and it sounds great, like none of
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: your friends, and like, okay, and that's eighteen and we'll
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: do this together.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: But you guys didn't know each other.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: What was that process of getting to know these these
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: these gentlemen and these these families.
• 17:09
  Speaker 10: Well, it was, it was it just definitely a different process. We,
• 17:12
  Speaker 10: like you said, a lot of different personalities are coming
• 17:14
  Speaker 10: into a mix, and we were actually being introduced through
• 17:17
  Speaker 10: zoom and so you know, you don't really get a
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: good feel of like how this person really is, how
• 17:21
  Speaker 10: they talk when they're you know, when you're around them,
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: and shaking hands.
• 17:24
  Speaker 9: And all that good stuff. So you know, in the beginning,
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: it was it was always loved.
• 17:27
  Speaker 10: We always have the same motivation, you know, to become
• 17:30
  Speaker 10: just to make to make this thing really really big,
• 17:32
  Speaker 10: and so it was we had that going and then
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: you know as time went time goes on, you sort
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: of learned the personalities and stuff like that, so you
• 17:40
  Speaker 10: get used to people and then you know, most of
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: the people are coming with their spouses, so you know,
• 17:44
  Speaker 10: you know, like you have the me and my wife
• 17:46
  Speaker 10: are there, and my wife knows Ashley, so through me
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: through her, I met Kevin and all the other guys
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: and stuff like that. So you know, we had a
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: former bond and kind of just go from there. It's
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: like like I said, we always have the same we
• 17:59
  Speaker 10: have the same wavation, so we we just stick with
• 18:02
  Speaker 10: that kind of you know, kind of just happened. We had
• 18:06
  Speaker 10: the same extracurricular activities as well. You know, we like
• 18:09
  Speaker 10: the same books and the same fun things that we
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: do outside of work, you know, that kind of stuff.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: So so this started as a Zoomian.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what, I didn't get that, like we did,
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: we miss that.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: A lot of people felt the same way though, Like
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: there's a lot of people who looked up and was mad.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: At us, like a man.
• 18:32
  Speaker 9: You know what, I noticed a lot of people wanted
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: more for me.
• 18:35
  Speaker 10: A lot of people, I feel a lot of people
• 18:36
  Speaker 10: wanted more information than what we can give.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: But it wasn't but.
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: It wasn't even that we had it to give.
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: It was more like figuring out that, you know, we
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: were figuring out that we were going on and if
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: you weren't with that, then that you just went with that.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: And some people don't be with that.
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: You know, there's different types of people that you got
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: the people who just like, look, I just want to
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: be with my friends.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: You got the people like I need to know all
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: the facts. You got the people.
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: I'm just wing to sound like, you know.
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: And then at the time it was like, you know,
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: it's like you know, like you were saying the George
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: Floord thing, it was just so much happening, and for me,
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: I just.
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: Had to get away.
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: I wanted to get to escape to I'm tired of
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: having to travel of this here and there another just
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: to get away for a little while. You know, I
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: get to go two hours down the road to have
• 19:16
  Speaker 10: that getaway to that so often need, like this is
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: what I'm here for.
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: That's how that's how it started.
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I look at it like like we got drafted, right,
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: and Renee and Ashley were the ones, you know, the
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: commissioners if you will, And they were like, you know,
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: who would we want to be like neighbors with, Like
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: who would we see ourselves living with. Let's just go
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: get a bunch of cool people and see if they
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: want to get down, you know. And I was just
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: less to be one of them. You know, I only
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: knew Ashley, you know, I got on the zoom and
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: they were like eighteen other faces. I was just like, yeah,
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: some people are marriage, some people have spousals, some people
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: have you know, they went to high school together. And
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: then there's me, you know, and they're like, who is
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: this dude?
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Right right right? You know.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: So we're still kind of working out those kind of dynamics,
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: but it's it's all part of the journey.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: So no embrace.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Actually you were saying that so you're talking telling me,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: like the steps. Now you have to find an architect
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: and you have to can you talk about that, because
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: like it's one thing, all right, So you get the land,
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: you get you get the families.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Everybody agrees to it. Now you just have one hundred acres.
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: It's a lot of money, a lot of money. Step
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: the step is a mass as much money as.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: You can, right, so listen.
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: It literally starts with buying the land. That's the easiest. First,
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: that's the easiest part is buying the land, setting up
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: the LLC so that we could buy the land.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: We did that two days. That's easy.
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: The harder parts are spending that money on the photographical
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: survey to find out what the topography is and whether
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: or not you can build. If it's too steep here
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: that means you can't build here, soil samples, percolation tests,
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: water testing, environmental testing, environmental impact fees.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: There's always another step.
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: And then because we have such a massive project, it's
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: not just one hundred acres, like to be a city,
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: we need at least six hundred and forty acres a
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: square mile radius. So you constantly like, okay, that means
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: we got to acquire more land. So you have to
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: negotiate the next conversation with the neighbors, like a neighbor,
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: can I get your land so that we can get
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: this puzzle piece going, so that we can eventually have
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: enough of the requirements meant to push a charter through
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: the legislature.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: So if this is like building blocks, this is just
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: the first piece.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Nothing.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Still get a few more pieces to make it a city.
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, action and the people, because you got to have
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: at least two hundred residents, and so every little thing
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: is strategic and even the politics of it all making
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: sure that Wilkinson County knows that we're here to help
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: uplift them.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: We're here to add value to the county.
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: If we can attract more people to the area, that
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: means Toombsboro, Goarton, Ivy, all of those people doubling. They
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: get to benefit from that economic development too of now
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: having more people in the area. So there's so many
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: different things. But technically, yes, you have to get a
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: civil engineer. From the civil engineer, he's going to just
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: do like, Okay, this is your roads, this is your setbacks,
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: this is your stormwater runoff, this is your waste water management.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: A waste water management system state of the art can
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: cost a million dollars, and that's.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: If you're doing it like top of the line and
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: you're trying to be eco friendly.
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: And that's our goal. Our goal is to build the
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: best and so taking the time to research and find like,
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: who is the best, who is the person that can
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: create as a black person, because sometimes I don't want
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: to put it this way because I think we have
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: enough talent to do everything ourselves, but sometimes the people
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: who are most qualified might not be black. So then
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: we have to look at, well, what does that look
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: like when we have to go to an ally and say, hey,
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: can you partner with this subcontractor or the sub vendor
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: so that we can put some black people onto the project,
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: because y'all the only ones who.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Can do it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: Because that's all of the types of things that we're navigating.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: Even when we talk about we're going to have to
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: put homeowners insurance on every single house that we build
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: in Freedom, we would love to be able to put
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: a black homeowner's insurance. Be the writer, the person who
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: writes the policy, not the person who writes the policy,
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: but the actual insurance agency. We don't have a black
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: owned insurance agency. We got Guico State Farm ain't no
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: black ones. So that's the kind of stuff that we
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: are always thinking about when it comes to this journey
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: of building a community that meets all of our needs
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: and that is pro black and allows us to really
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: support black businesses in that way, because we that's what
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: our goal is every step of the way. We want
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: to put black businesses on and so looking at how
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: do we do that, how do we hire the best
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: civil engineer, the best city planner, Because after you hire
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: the civil engineer, he lays out the roads. Now somebody's
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: got a plan. Okay, the subdivision is going to go here,
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: this subdivision is going to go there.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: This is where the.
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: Agricultural goes, this is where the industrial goes. And if
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: we don't want to have polluted air, we might need
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: to move industry way over here. If we need the
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: you know, waste water management, and how can we utilize
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: permit culture so that everything's regenerative.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Like we having those kinds of conversations.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: So I feel this is like, you know, Sims, that's why.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Mike might used to kill that.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: We used to catch them in the computer room in
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: eighth grade.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: That founts.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: But So and SIMS if anybody's not familiar, SIMS was
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: a video game back in the days. Was a computer
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: game where you can build your own city. So this
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: sounds like it reminds me of SIMS. So and your brain. All,
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: I want to get all of your opinions on this.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: How do you envision your city looking like right now,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: it's just land, but in the perfect world if everything
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: goes perfect, which never nothing ever goes perfect. But how
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: what's your blueprint in your brain that you want a bank,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: you want a school, you want what do you?
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: What do you? What are you envision in the in
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: the community.
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: But I wasna say, y'all hear it, And everybody's got
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: a different vision. Like when I think, because at the
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: end of the day, I'm a relator, so I always
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: kind of go back to the real estate.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, it's going to be.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: Different subdivisions, some kinds because I don't never want to
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: live nowhere where every house look the same, but some
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: people like the uniformity of I want every house on
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: my subdivision to look the same. And when I think
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: about building freedom, I want people to have choices. I
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: think that's what freedom is genuinely about So we got
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: the misers. That's like, look, I want a little subdivision
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: where I can have v We're gonna put them way
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: in the back. You can hear I see having different communities,
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: different vibes where we're not all on top of each other.
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: Because it's rural and it's beautiful. We got a lot
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: of wildlife, lots of animals. We don't want to run
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: them all. We want to be as eco friendly and
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: as environmentally and naturally in harmony as we can because
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: the land is just gorgeous, so like it won't be
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: a whole bunch of skyscrapers or none of that, because
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: the rural beauty of this scenic landscape is the selling.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Point real quick.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: Because I'm thinking, like, even when you said the waste
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: management piece of it, yes, eco friendly, But as you're
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: building it, are you building it for the ninety seven
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: acres first, or you're building it with the intent that, yo,
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: we're going to acquire more land.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Is that what we absolutely are doing it with the
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: intent to acquire more land.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Got you? Got you?
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: And the other part was said, two hundred people have
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: to live there? How many acres does it have to be?
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: So technically, because we of the jurisdiction of Wilkinson is
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: it is it.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: A state mandate or is it a county man's a.
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: County mandate typically, but so we this is raw, right,
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: so they don't have everybody out there in this area
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: that they told us. We thought Tombsboro was the bulldogs.
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: They told us where we Bortland was the bulldogs.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: They were like, oh, you in the boon Dog. I
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: was like, sir, you think so they're they're on well,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: they're on septic right now.
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: So county code means that anybody builds there has to
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: have at least an acre, a minimum of an acre
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: to put your well in your septic tank on for.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Your home, like a water well.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: A waterwall, like you got a jail. Yeah, excuse me.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: So we do have, you know, awesome technology.
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: I got all everywhere I go, Like, I shout out
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: to Moses West. He has atmospheric water generation technology that
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: literally separates the hydrogen and oxygen particles from the air
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: to generate gallons thousands of gallons a day. His technology
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: is a piece of technology that they utilized in Puerto
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: Rico to bring freshwater to Puerto Rico after the hurricane hit,
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: So like we have black excellence all around us, and
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: so being able to implement those kinds of technologies is
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: what we want to do. We want That's why when
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: I wrote my Black Blavity piece, my Opta, I said,
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: we can have what kind of like we really can,
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: Like the sky is not even the limit. Like anything
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: we can conceive, we can create, and there are so
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: many people already out here doing it, doing it dope,
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: like doing some dope things. So being able to attract
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: those kinds of resources and those kinds of people has
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: been the most exciting part about it, and which is
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: one of the reasons why we went public. Because everybody
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: always talk about you know, on conversations on social media.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I people talk too much. I should have kept it
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: to y'allself, and.
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: I'm just like, but we would not have inspired a
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: generation people all over the world. We wouldn't have been
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: able to attract the resources people like, look, I will
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: help you do this because they want to see this succeed.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Because we had so many black cities that were burnt down.
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: To completely destroyed for no reason other than white aggression
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: and jealousy in misdirection. And so this is a chance
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: for our ancestors do something that can honor them because
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: they were so talented, they had so many dreams, so
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: many prayers, and to be the answer to those prayers
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: is what this moment is about.
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: So I'm going to ask all three of you a question,
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: and ask I've heard you speak about it before, but
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: the importance and you use the word a safe haven
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: for black families, what does that look like and how
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: does that come about?
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: I guess all three of you can answer really.
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: Uh okay, yeah, all right.
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: So growing up, like I'm from New York too, and
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: we used to have the Pledge of allegiance. This is
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: this is what I was saying on the zoom, but
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: the zoom the audio went out a little bit Pledge
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: of allegiance. You stand to your feet, you put your
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: hand over your heart, turn to the flag. All right,
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna spare you the words. But at the end
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: it says liberty and justice for all, and that wasn't
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: really reflected in my neighborhood. I was a little confused
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: growing up, you know, like every day you brainwashing us
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: to say this, but that's not what I'm seeing, you
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: know what I mean, where's the liberty and justice for
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: all the all part, you know. So I guess I
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: started my path to just kind of go down and
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: have it make sense for me eventually, you know. So
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: networking that's how it became an entrepreneur.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: It just didn't feel right, you know, going and making
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: somebody else rich and you know, getting the peanuts and
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: not really getting the the respect that I needed, Like
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: I'm running this company, you know, so just trying to
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: make that make sense, you know. So I do that
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: with my family, with my friends, with people I meet strangers,
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: you know, because that's the change I want to see
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: in the world. So I live that, you know. So
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: that's what that looks like for me. People that have
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: a vision that may not have the support that they
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: may that they may need. You know, it's tough being
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: an entrepreneur, I know, you know how many man just
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: as my mom still wants me to be a pilot
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: to this day.
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: To this day.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: Sorry Mom, it's not happy you no, But but for
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: those people who need that support, that's all it takes.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: You know, you have a vision, you may not have
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: the little components that you may need, but your neighbor
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: might have it. Your cousin's friend might have it, you know,
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: somebody went to high school with, might know somebody you know.
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: Get that network together right and then you can achieve that,
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: you know. But the key thing with that is getting
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: the right mindset. So we don't want that kind of
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: mindset in our land, in our world. Know that mindset
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: is everything, just everything. You know, if you think you
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: can or you think you can't, probably right, oh right,
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. So you know, I gotta
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: think actually again for you know, we talk even before this,
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: you know, offline about a lot of different entrepreneurial experiences
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: and things that we wanted to do. But it's because
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: of the mindset. I wouldn't have conversations I have with her,
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: with you know, my neighbor who doesn't have.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: The mindset for it.
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: So that's the kind of people that we want to see.
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: That's the safe haven. When we say the safe haven,
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: it's not only from police and things of that nature,
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: but it's from all forms of oppression. Oppression is not
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: just police, you know, that could be negative vibes from
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: a spouse or from a loved one, or from your boss,
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: or from your neighbor or your parents, or from whoever,
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: you know, So a place where you can feel free
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: to experience life and you don't have to worry about
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: that kind of stuff and you can really focus on
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: your dream and your mission, you know. So you know,
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: I'm glad you brought that up because we're gonna be
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: need a lot of help. So we're here to here
• 33:05
  Speaker 7: today too to reach out, you know, like you know,
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: people of like minds. If this is something that speaks
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: to your soul, speaks to your spirit, please reach out
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: to us, you know, reach.
• 33:12
  Speaker 10: Out to us. A safe even for me, you know,
• 33:16
  Speaker 10: similar to what you guys were saying as well. You know,
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: I have I have an eight year old son and
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: a nine year old nephew that stayed with me and everything,
• 33:22
  Speaker 10: and it's like, you know, they get to go outside
• 33:24
  Speaker 10: and not have to worry about microaggressions from you know,
• 33:27
  Speaker 10: a neighbor who doesn't understand their culture, you know, riding
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: down the street on their bike and he might be
• 33:31
  Speaker 10: too close to the cars and now he's calling the
• 33:33
  Speaker 10: police or throwing rocks or something like that. You know,
• 33:35
  Speaker 10: they can really just be free, like literally be free.
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: You know, you go outside and you don't have to
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: worry about where they're at, and you're gonna want to know,
• 33:42
  Speaker 10: you know, just because but you don't have to worry
• 33:43
  Speaker 10: about where they're like really worried. Because I'm Aberund. My
• 33:45
  Speaker 10: dad was in the military. I used to leave the
• 33:47
  Speaker 10: house at eight o'clock in the morning and not show
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: up until now, No one ever worried about where I was.
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: I mean, my parents never showed the interesting me. They
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: showed the interest, but they weren't worried. I know, they
• 33:55
  Speaker 10: weren't worried, And so that's what the same tabe is
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: for me. Then also this whole land you know, this
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: whole experience is it not just the safe haven. It's
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: more of like retribution, Like we're getting land back. We're
• 34:06
  Speaker 10: taking land that was taken away from people in my
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: family from years ago. I'm like, as this is becoming,
• 34:10
  Speaker 10: you know, as I'm getting more involved with this, you know,
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: I'm talking to my family members and knowing more because
• 34:14
  Speaker 10: you know, I'm involved with this, and they're telling me
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: stories of things that happened to them, you know in
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: the forties and the fifties, how land was literally just
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: taken from them.
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: Like like you know what, this is not yours? Anymore.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: I'm taking it.
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: You can't do anything.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: About it, you know.
• 34:24
  Speaker 10: So I'm like, wow, I didn't even like I had
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: no ideas even happen in my family. But now I'm
• 34:28
  Speaker 10: learning about the history of my family, not just mine.
• 34:31
  Speaker 10: It's so many people in the South who have land
• 34:33
  Speaker 10: like literally taken from them, like just just because they
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: were black, no other reason than that, just because you
• 34:38
  Speaker 10: were black.
• 34:39
  Speaker 9: I want this land.
• 34:40
  Speaker 10: It's mine now, So all these like you know, especially
• 34:42
  Speaker 10: in Concord, Georgia. You know it's owned by one family,
• 34:45
  Speaker 10: but that one family literally was taking land away from
• 34:47
  Speaker 10: black people. It was like, it was wow, Like my
• 34:49
  Speaker 10: generation is a part of that. Like my cousin, one
• 34:50
  Speaker 10: of my older cousins, Remember, he literally remembers the house
• 34:53
  Speaker 10: burning down because they burned it down in order to
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: get that land.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: That it was that serious.
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: I hadn't mean, I had no idea, you know what
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: I'm saying.
• 35:00
  Speaker 10: None of these conversations were had just because you know,
• 35:03
  Speaker 10: they kind of wanted to get rid of those memories,
• 35:05
  Speaker 10: and now this is kind of brought them back up.
• 35:07
  Speaker 10: Like I told them, like, you know what, I'm gonna
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: speak for you guys. I'm gonna make sure that you know,
• 35:10
  Speaker 10: people know your story and I'm this land is for
• 35:12
  Speaker 10: y'all too, so you can come up here and get
• 35:14
  Speaker 10: some red dirt play wherever.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: You want to do, you know.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: So that's that's that's what it means as well, just
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: going through that process, discovering that and now, yes, that's crazy,
• 35:22
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  Speaker 5: A million dollars? So can you get loans for this
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: type of project?
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Or yes, we can get loans.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Just can you talk about like how does get loan
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: for something that's not built? Like, well, how does that work?
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: So, I mean, first of all, we're in rural lands,
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: so we get USDA opportunities for our agricultural USDA loans.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: We haven't talked about that yet, but that's something that
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: people should be very very.
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: Aware aware, especially if you're talking about building a house
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: in the rural area.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: It's a zero down payment.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: Can you talk about that, yeah, USDA, Yeah, So.
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: The United States Department of Agriculture pretty much get guarantees
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: that you go through a bank, le your traditional bank.
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: You let them know that I'm purchasing in this area.
• 39:08
  Speaker 8: It's similar to like even a VA loan. You qualify
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: for a VA loan by being a honorably discharged veteran
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: or you could be still in the Armed forces. But
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: it's a zero down loan, and our federal government backs
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: those loans, so if you didn't pay it, they would
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: be responsible for it. So the threshold for requirements are
• 39:31
  Speaker 8: a little lower than traditional conventional loans. So that's why
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: you're able to get that loan at zero down versus
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: having to put your twenty percent down because the government
• 39:42
  Speaker 8: backs it. You go through a regular bank, you can
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: go through a land bank or what's known as an
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: agricultural bank, a credit union, and you just say, hey,
• 39:50
  Speaker 8: I want to purchase this land in this rural area.
• 39:53
  Speaker 8: It does have to qualify based on the zip code
• 39:56
  Speaker 8: it's in but if it does meet those qualifications. When
• 40:00
  Speaker 8: you meet certain qualifications, then you'll be able to purchase
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: it through their zero down program.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: So so you got the USDA loans and any other
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: type of like regular banks, they can their loan money
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: as well.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: Absolutely, And so the key is to have a good
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: credit score.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Make sure the people.
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: If you're talking about getting a loan for your business,
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: everybody in the business needs to also have good credit.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: So credit is essential.
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: It's the essential thing in this game is making sure
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: that credit score. Everybody should be shooting for at least
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: a seven hundred. I would love to see eight hundreds.
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: But the reality is the thing that keeps a lot
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: of people from progressing in life is the ability to
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: leverage credit. And the way that you leverage credit is
• 40:44
  Speaker 8: by having that credit score. And you have to show
• 40:47
  Speaker 8: those income streams. You need to be able to show
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: that you have cash flow and revenue streams coming in
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: so that you can get as much credit as you
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: possibly can. So right now we're at that place because
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: we're a brand new business. It's hard for for us
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: to get traditional credit right now without having assets and
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: to show that we got income streams. We don't have
• 41:06
  Speaker 8: income streams yet because we're building a town, so we
• 41:10
  Speaker 8: have to take the route of working with a hard
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: money lender, and that's private money that has a little
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: less stringent underwriting. So there's a million ways to skin
• 41:19
  Speaker 8: a cat. The most important thing is to make sure
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: that your credit score is as high as it possibly
• 41:24
  Speaker 8: can be.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: And so that leads me to.
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: I'm a brand ambassador for a black owned, not black
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: managed credit and business financing and funding company called Novay Money,
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: and so that organization actually helps people to increase their
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: credit score, helps them to establish business credit and access funding,
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: because that's what we need to actually be able to
• 41:51
  Speaker 8: build our businesses, is that good credit and that access
• 41:56
  Speaker 8: to capital. And since venture capitalists traditionally are still not
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: funding black businesses, all of.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: The research is dismal.
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: Even now, even after all these people came out and
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: said black lives matter, we ready to support y'all, nothing
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: has changed in the venture capitalist space. So we have
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: to have this ability to access money through our black
• 42:22
  Speaker 8: banks like Unity Bank, like Citizens Trust Bank, one United Bank,
• 42:28
  Speaker 8: having those relationships Unity Bank and that credit score because
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: they can only do so much, Like you can't go
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: to the bank without no income streams and without and
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: with poor credit. So it's up to us to make
• 42:42
  Speaker 8: sure that we're educated, we're financially educated, that we understand
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: the entire credit pie because the reality is you could
• 42:50
  Speaker 8: have missed a few payments. That's not the only way
• 42:52
  Speaker 8: to increase your credit score. You can increase your credit
• 42:55
  Speaker 8: score by opening additional lines of credit. You can increase
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: your credit score by making sure your oldest line of
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: credit doesn't close, that you keep that open forever in
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: your history. Like, there's these pieces to the pie that
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: we have to become more educated about. And when we
• 43:12
  Speaker 8: are able, for every eight hundred creates one hundred thousand
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: of leverage.
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: So when you and shout Rene, because Rene has been
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: emailing you back and forth shouting when you were in
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: the quote unquote drafting, is that some of the criteria
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: You're like, listen, guys, if you want to be part
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: of this, this is no.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: I wasn't. Yeah, it was after the day, and that
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: now we have to contend with. Yeah, I'm in real
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: estate agent. I'm like, look, we just gonna get this land.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Like I was like, who got this check?
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: And so everybody came up with the board I land
• 43:48
  Speaker 8: like so no, in that case, No, we do have
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: We do have some people in our collective as exceptional credit.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: We have some people who have challenge credit. I have.
• 43:58
  Speaker 8: I'm just now getting to the place where I'm not
• 44:00
  Speaker 8: so challenged, you know, like it's a journey, and we
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: have to just be honest and have these kinds of
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: conversations because it's not impossible. You just have to have
• 44:09
  Speaker 8: the right education and right partners and accountability partners are everything.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: People like Kevin when he started talking about his CRIS,
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: I'm like, get my game.
• 44:20
  Speaker 8: To make sure I got my little self together. I'm like,
• 44:23
  Speaker 8: I want to be able to go get my.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: R V too.
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: So those are the conversations that you have with you know,
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: like we keep saying, like minded individuals, we go further
• 44:33
  Speaker 8: faster together.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: That credit is everything.
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think it's dope because you're growing together.
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: But you're also educating each other. Right, So you didn't
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: come in with that education, but now everybody's on the
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: same plan and everybody's educating each other. I want to
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: go back to the land because I heard and I
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: read the first thing that you guys are doing is
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: building out the agriculture and the farming.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: You talk about why that's so important.
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean food is everything. Like we watch enough
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: Walking Dig Stop playing with me, y'all. We watch enough
• 45:05
  Speaker 8: Walking Dead and enough of these Hollywood shows to know
• 45:08
  Speaker 8: when it all goes down and it's fee out, money
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: start crashing, what we're gonna need to eat and some water.
• 45:17
  Speaker 8: So that's why farming comes first around here.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 45:21
  Speaker 8: Granted, we've been doing more events first because that's just
• 45:24
  Speaker 8: a revenue stream that's quick and easy. Camp out events.
• 45:28
  Speaker 8: We got dope musicians and our collective. My husband's a musician,
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: our friend Q is a dope song stress, my pastor
• 45:36
  Speaker 8: and first Lady, our dope our ministry and worship leaders.
• 45:41
  Speaker 8: So we have dope events like our jam sessions be lit.
• 45:45
  Speaker 8: So the events are one of the first things that
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: we've been doing because that's like the lowest cost barrier
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: that we can start generating revenue from because you just
• 45:55
  Speaker 8: need the land, right.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: So is that what the Big Black.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Bank jobs were coming to the Big.
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: Black camp Out because I might go camping, get some
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: people camping.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: There was a lot of people. Can people came from.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: All over then tell everybody what it is.
• 46:13
  Speaker 8: So the Big Black camp Out is our annual event
• 46:16
  Speaker 8: where we are encouraging black families to get outdoors. We
• 46:20
  Speaker 8: hashtag Diversify Outdoors because there's an entire black camping culture
• 46:26
  Speaker 8: like shout out the Melanated Camp, Black Urban Camp Weekend.
• 46:31
  Speaker 8: It's so many Black girls camp like this. We we
• 46:34
  Speaker 8: be outside, we be doing stuff like I don't know,
• 46:38
  Speaker 8: everybody trying to act like we're not out here getting
• 46:41
  Speaker 8: this fresh air and living our best life in nature
• 46:43
  Speaker 8: and outdoors because we do. And so we had really
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: cool people outdoors men, sportsmen and just regular for who
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: had never been camping before, who would have never went
• 46:54
  Speaker 8: camping if it wasn't a group event, because it's like, you.
• 46:57
  Speaker 12: Know, like I'm not going out there with no bears.
• 47:05
  Speaker 8: Wild wild, boar wild, and you know, but camping together collectively.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: It was so dope.
• 47:13
  Speaker 8: People really enjoyed it and people bought their their r vs.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: Like it was so fun.
• 47:19
  Speaker 8: And we we had music, we had live performances, we
• 47:23
  Speaker 8: had the vendors out. We really just enjoyed ourselves and
• 47:27
  Speaker 8: we're gonna do it every year.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: It's gonna just get bigger and better.
• 47:30
  Speaker 10: People were so comfortable they literally slipt outside on the
• 47:33
  Speaker 10: on the ground.
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: When was it?
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: When was it labor? We're talking like campfires and.
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: That was that was a fundraiser to have the fund. Okay,
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: so are you guys recruiting lack of a better word,
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: are you recruiting other people or like somebody saying, Okay,
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: I want to be part of this movement, part of
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: this community. Do they go online and sign up? Do
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: they can they make donations? Like what's get drafted?
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna give y'all a little secret sauce. I like y'all.
• 48:05
  Speaker 8: Two ways you get drafted right. First way is the
• 48:08
  Speaker 8: easiest way. Go to www dot Freedom Georgia dot com.
• 48:14
  Speaker 8: There's a bunch of checkboxes, click or form for whatever
• 48:18
  Speaker 8: you're interested in buying land, being a resident, being a
• 48:23
  Speaker 8: strategic partner or business owner, Yes, volunteers. There's a lot
• 48:29
  Speaker 8: of options. So if you won't get involved, go to
• 48:32
  Speaker 8: Freedom Georgia dot com.
• 48:34
  Speaker 12: But if you really want to be down with us,
• 48:36
  Speaker 12: like you really want to be down with what were doing,
• 48:39
  Speaker 12: we have partnered with a national nonprofit organization called the
• 48:46
  Speaker 12: Black Achievement Fund.
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: The Black Achievement Fund is a simple concept. Ten million
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: black folks giving nine dollars a month, there's less than Hulu,
• 48:56
  Speaker 8: there's less than Netflix. You got nine dollars, that's less
• 49:00
  Speaker 8: than your coffee you spend on a weekday. We can
• 49:05
  Speaker 8: create a sustainable income of ninety million dollars a month
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: where we can then create our own communities with our
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: own money.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: We don't got to owe nobody nothing but to love them.
• 49:17
  Speaker 8: And if we can create this with this just nine
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: dollars membership, we are offering grants, business loans. We'll be
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: building businesses of much needed services like dentists offices and
• 49:34
  Speaker 8: administrative offices that just by being a member that pays
• 49:39
  Speaker 8: nine dollars a month, you'll be able to access these
• 49:41
  Speaker 8: services at no cost or at cost and adult visit.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:48
  Speaker 8: So the president and the founder of the Black Achievement
• 49:51
  Speaker 8: Fund is an exceptional historian historian.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: From Cornell University.
• 49:57
  Speaker 8: He has conceptualized this, tested this, there's re search that
• 50:00
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  Speaker 2: And it's just nine dollars.
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  Speaker 8: And that little gift, that donation that you're gonna get
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  Speaker 8: to write off anyway at the end of the year,
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• 50:51
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• 50:55
  Speaker 4: Let me ask you this, so all right, so when
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: did you guys think is gonna be up and running,
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: like as far as like when are were breaking around
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: on the first house or the first road or what
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: what does come first? Like is the houses come first?
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: Is the farm come first?
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: The farm comes first first.
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: So the first thing that we're doing is the farmhouse.
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: Because we have a master farmer that is a part
• 51:18
  Speaker 8: of our collective.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: And to be perfectly honest, like.
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: Until we can liberate her from the corporate plantation, she
• 51:25
  Speaker 8: can't come farm.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: So we got to build her house.
• 51:28
  Speaker 8: We gotta make sure she's got a salary, and then
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: we can start the farming because someone's got to be
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: there around the clock to actually farm that land and
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: you know, make sure it's growing the right way, that's
• 51:39
  Speaker 8: getting the right water, that the pollination is going away,
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: because sometimes you have to self pollinate these days because.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: The bees is disappearing. We got a lot of bees
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: on our land.
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: We got bees, but you do need someone there to
• 51:57
  Speaker 8: tend the land, like we have to stewart the land.
• 52:00
  Speaker 8: So the very first step is to make sure that
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: the person who's qualified, our certified master farmer, has the
• 52:07
  Speaker 8: ability to live there and do that. So as soon
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: as we can, we're going to be putting our farmhouse
• 52:13
  Speaker 8: and that'll actually serve as an income stream because we'll
• 52:16
  Speaker 8: be able to airb and be it and invite guests
• 52:18
  Speaker 8: and visitors to come enjoy the land, and then we'll
• 52:21
  Speaker 8: have the farming and start. The next step from there
• 52:24
  Speaker 8: will be our teeny retreat center, like we want to
• 52:28
  Speaker 8: have teeny cabins so that way people can because the
• 52:31
  Speaker 8: land is gorgeous.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: If we don't do nothing else but just come and hang.
• 52:34
  Speaker 8: Out and just spend time on the land, that experience
• 52:39
  Speaker 8: alone is worth every penny because it's just so nice.
• 52:42
  Speaker 8: And so by creating this avery tourism and eco tourism economy,
• 52:48
  Speaker 8: first will begin to start putting the houses and the
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: vacation homes, the retirement homes.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: Every phase leads to the next phase.
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: So how often, because I remember when we were talking,
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: it was like, k I'm not going to be on
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: the land that day. How often is somebody I guess,
• 53:03
  Speaker 6: out of the nineteen families actually on the land, is
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: somebody always there?
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: No, That's why.
• 53:08
  Speaker 8: We'd be like, stop calling us and stop showing up
• 53:10
  Speaker 8: to our land, y'all, Like not just come jumping up,
• 53:14
  Speaker 8: you know, people crazy. Yeah, and we got signs up now,
• 53:18
  Speaker 8: stop trespassing on our land y'all.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: People just driving around.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the tree I saw.
• 53:28
  Speaker 8: Don't come to our land unless we invite you, like people.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: All the time, but we are not there. We got
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: regular jobs.
• 53:37
  Speaker 8: Like one of the things we say at the time
• 53:38
  Speaker 8: is like we regular people, even though we're not regular.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Really we're a little regularly, you.
• 53:45
  Speaker 8: Know, we're exceptional people, but we're regular, you know, Like,
• 53:48
  Speaker 8: so we got jobs, like my husband works for Marda,
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: So we don't be at the land every weekend we
• 53:55
  Speaker 8: go when we got something to do. When we got
• 53:57
  Speaker 8: like so this weekend that we're getting ready to be there,
• 54:01
  Speaker 8: we're building a sweat lodge because we're getting ready to
• 54:03
  Speaker 8: have an event called a Black Girl Magic Retreat is
• 54:06
  Speaker 8: a private event that we're hosting. And then we have
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: our Freedom Fall Festival coming up. So whenever we have
• 54:12
  Speaker 8: an event, it brings us to the land. When we
• 54:14
  Speaker 8: got something going on, we ain't got nothing going on
• 54:16
  Speaker 8: with it.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: I heard this and I'm like, how's this pot?
• 54:19
  Speaker 6: Well, obviously you have aography, got somebody that's doing it.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: Maybe obviously engineers going to create a lake.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how.
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 54:32
  Speaker 8: We are lucky enough to have a creek already on
• 54:35
  Speaker 8: the land, and so there's a couple of ways that
• 54:38
  Speaker 8: can happen, Like we'll have to.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: Dig first, Like digging is the major thing.
• 54:42
  Speaker 8: If we're lucky enough, we'll hit a spring or aquifire
• 54:45
  Speaker 8: that might actually make the lake happen for us, Like
• 54:49
  Speaker 8: that will be the most idental situation when we hit
• 54:51
  Speaker 8: a spring that would be lovely.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: We have to fill it up.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: When we call it Moses West.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Let me holler, Let that water atmospheric.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: Generator we're gonna need a million gallons, and.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: Then that's how you fill it up. You order the water,
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: you fill it up.
• 55:10
  Speaker 8: It's some things that we might have to gravel it,
• 55:13
  Speaker 8: or we might have to put some clay.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: It's probably clay.
• 55:15
  Speaker 8: We might it might already be clay because we kind
• 55:17
  Speaker 8: of it's funny enough.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: The street is called Little Sandy Creek, so.
• 55:21
  Speaker 8: It's probably not what we want, which is sand, because
• 55:25
  Speaker 8: sand means the water we constantly filter out of it.
• 55:29
  Speaker 8: We'd have to keep filling it back up, or we'll
• 55:31
  Speaker 8: have to amend the soil in such a way that
• 55:34
  Speaker 8: we have enough clay that it keeps the water in there.
• 55:37
  Speaker 8: So it's it's a lot of engineering. I'm not the expert,
• 55:40
  Speaker 8: but we have people who are. Are one of our elders,
• 55:47
  Speaker 8: we call her profit is Caroline Sunny.
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: Every week, that's her.
• 55:51
  Speaker 8: She's a fisherman and her and her husband they own
• 55:54
  Speaker 8: a boat.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: They go fishing all the time.
• 55:55
  Speaker 8: So right now they're okay because the Coney river's right there,
• 55:58
  Speaker 8: so the good green they boat down.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: They go on the river. But they're like, look this lake.
• 56:03
  Speaker 8: This lake, though, that's the only thing they worry about
• 56:06
  Speaker 8: right now. This Lake, and I'm like, I promised them
• 56:09
  Speaker 8: with lake. That's how I knew they was gonna sign
• 56:10
  Speaker 8: up that they wanted the lake, because like I'm a marketer,
• 56:14
  Speaker 8: So I was like, I look, I was like, I
• 56:18
  Speaker 8: know who I want and I know what they hot button.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: So I was like, we're gonna put this lake on
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: this presentation.
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: So let me let me ask you this, because you
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: any of you guys can ser this. You always hear
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: like Georgia Georgia and Atlanta is different, like Atlanta is
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: like the Black Haven, but once you go outside of Atlanta,
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: it's like it's a whole different environment. So you guys
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: are outside of Atlanta in the country, We've heard so
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: many stories about the South, the rural south, the country, like.
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean, Like it's it's true. So yeah,
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: how's thet.
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: How's the hospitality been? And being that you're looking to
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: buy more land, do you think that now that people
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: know what you did, like that they'll be reluctant.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: No, they're happy to sell all land. Like people are.
• 57:01
  Speaker 8: Always happy to make money, Like they don't never change.
• 57:04
  Speaker 9: Like this one thing. They all care about that game.
• 57:07
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 57:07
  Speaker 10: The folks down there are welcoming though. Everybody's that everyone
• 57:10
  Speaker 10: in that area, in that county, county.
• 57:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's their family oriented because this is the kind
• 57:15
  Speaker 8: of place. Like Wilkinson County has nine thousand residents, so
• 57:18
  Speaker 8: they got three schools Wilkinson High School, Wilkinson Middle School,
• 57:21
  Speaker 8: Wilkinson Elementary for seven cities.
• 57:25
  Speaker 5: Everybody goes to school.
• 57:26
  Speaker 8: Everybody go to They.
• 57:29
  Speaker 9: Literally just walking to your property as if they like
• 57:32
  Speaker 9: they know you.
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: Like this is like.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: It's like sir, Now they do all walk it's the country.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: So they all walk around with guns.
• 57:41
  Speaker 8: The right to bear arms is big, like and that's anybody,
• 57:44
  Speaker 8: the white folks, black folks, everybody got we got guns.
• 57:46
  Speaker 8: We have guns like an amendment rights. We got guns.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: And to be clear.
• 57:56
  Speaker 12: To be clear, we are legal, like we're veterans, like
• 58:01
  Speaker 12: we got guns.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: You know how we do.
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: So we're creating the loss.
• 58:07
  Speaker 8: So everybody's been cool, everybody has been kind. Like I said,
• 58:11
  Speaker 8: it's a it's a diverse community. It's lots of good
• 58:15
  Speaker 8: black folks, lots of good white folks. Everybody is not
• 58:18
  Speaker 8: even really about color. It's about a culture. And they
• 58:21
  Speaker 8: got that kind of small town culture that makes you
• 58:24
  Speaker 8: feel at home, makes you want to be there. Like
• 58:26
  Speaker 8: every time I go, I feel like I'm going home,
• 58:28
  Speaker 8: Like it feels so good whenever we get.
• 58:30
  Speaker 7: To Absolutely there have been people that came to the
• 58:32
  Speaker 7: land and got lost, and one of the locals, just
• 58:34
  Speaker 7: in the pickup truck, was like, yeah, we are.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: Found some people over here.
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: I think they're looking for you.
• 58:43
  Speaker 9: Exactly.
• 58:44
  Speaker 8: They because it's a lot that's a big hunting community,
• 58:51
  Speaker 8: and so like they be hunting, so they.
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: Noticed we do they have.
• 58:54
  Speaker 10: We're gonna we're gonna do it too with wild turkey
• 58:56
  Speaker 10: hunting and board honting.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Yep, dove hunting.
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: Interesting some of some of the I guess I feedback,
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: but our criticism of it is that all you guys
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: are building a black community. But I like the word
• 59:10
  Speaker 6: you said, allies, So that's not it's not that it's
• 59:13
  Speaker 6: just for black people.
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: You will have people of other races.
• 59:17
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna take care of the world, I know, So
• 59:19
  Speaker 6: that that's the purpose of it right there there.
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: There's it's going to be diversity as well where you go.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: Where we ain't got diversity.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: But I don't even see why it even has to
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: be diverse, because you go to Chinatown and there's no
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: diversity and nobody nobody says anything. Yeah, every major city
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: in America and all over the world.
• 59:41
  Speaker 6: It's crazy because that was that was part of the critics.
• 59:44
  Speaker 6: Like when we put the post up, it was like,
• 59:45
  Speaker 6: oh my god, this is racist.
• 59:48
  Speaker 10: I saw that on your Black people try to do
• 59:52
  Speaker 10: anything they try, it's always something that you always trying
• 59:55
  Speaker 10: to find something wrong with it to discredit it. Something
• 59:58
  Speaker 10: this is the problem with this is the problem days,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 10: Like come on now, I mean, like you were saying,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 10: just tying totown, no one going to complain about that.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 9: I know in New York.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: My wife is in the Long Island.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 10: And she was we woul drive around when I first
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 10: met her, and she was I was like, no, fascinating
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 10: New York and all that, and she would just show
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 10: me these places where even if you had the money,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 10: you can't live there because if you're not you know,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 10: Italian or from China, you know China, whatever the case
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 10: may be, they don't want you and then you're not
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 10: going to live there. So no one goes to complain
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 10: about that at all. I mean, it's just the way
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 10: it is. But you come up. We would have a
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 10: city and I was sitting with this and with.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 7: That, it is like, come on now, well you know
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 7: that's the reason why I think that's a big reason
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 7: why we even did this, all right, because I mean,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 7: I mean, I mean, I was originally was born in Trinidad,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 7: but I grew up in Brooklyn. One of my friends
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 7: wanted to get a Brownstone and in the best style area,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 7: and she had to go through one of her allies
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 7: to get it. They would they literally would not sell
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 7: to her. She showed up in her blackness, you know,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 7: she's Afro Latina, and they were like, oh, yeah, it's
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 7: just missed it not for sale. Is we have another
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 7: buyer or whatever whatever the story was, showed up with.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: One of her allies.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 7: Boom, paperwork done. But so just to talk about what
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 7: you were saying, Yeah, there's a little China, Italy, you know,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 7: all of these different places.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 5: Nobody say anything about that.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 7: When a construction company and a whole subdivision goes up,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 7: it's not a white subdivision. It's just a subdivision just
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 7: happen to be millenated. I mean, I don't really see
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 7: the big deal, but apparently I know where we are.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: I know, I think the fact.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 8: That we said it like that's the thing, like we
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: set it out loud is the problem, and it's not
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 8: and it shouldn't be a problem because what we typically
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 8: see is they discriminate through finances. Because if you put
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 8: a three hundred thousand dollars house up, most people who
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 8: look like us can't afford it, and those who can,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 8: when they do buy it, they probably are going to
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 8: feel very unwelcome.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: They ain't gonna be three hundred. It's gonna be like
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: four hundred.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 12: It might be five.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: Especially when we start talking about.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 8: Gated communities and top areas with the best schools, they
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 8: we get priced out of it, and so they don't
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 8: have to call it a white community.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: They just call it a rich community.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 8: And if you happen to be black and get in there,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 8: they're gonna make you feel unwealthy.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 10: They're gonna be one of you be one of a few,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 10: and then you know you're gonna have a kid, especially
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 10: they're darthy, and they're gonna you get area is gonna.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: Be Yeah, you're gonna wonder why they constantly.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up, though, because that's
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 7: that's something that we haven't been able to control. The
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 7: narrative in the initial stages. You know, these news agencies
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 7: they want you know, hot yea, they want to sensationalize it,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: you know. And it was like, you know, I saw
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 7: one post and that says, yeah, nineteen black families by
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 7: some land, but the black was like bold and a
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 7: different font, you know, three sizes is bigger, and I'm like,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 7: here we go. And then that's where you get those
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 7: comments from. Yeah, it's a town built by black people,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 7: But that don't mean if you're not black, you're not welcome,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 7: you know what I mean. So you know, I just
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 7: want to throw that out there. It's not reverse racism
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 7: and all this other stuff. It's just we trying to
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 7: be the change we want to see in our society,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 7: and our society hasn't.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 5: Been showing that for us. So we're going to do
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: it ourselves.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: To freedom, simple, to freedom.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: Freedom for one hundred acres in the mule?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: Did you get the mule?
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: We gonna get us a.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll have a stable of champion breeding horses if
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 8: we're lucky. But we look forward to a wonderful relationship
• 1:03:48
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• 1:04:05
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• 1:04:11
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  Speaker 4: how can they contact you guys? Like, how can they
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  Speaker 4: social media handule stuff like that.
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  Speaker 10: I'll start off My instagram is Freedom Georgia Initiative.
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  Speaker 7: My instagram is actually Freedom I'm sorry, actually playing Freedom
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  Speaker 7: twenty my personal instagram.
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  Speaker 10: My instagram is God's Favorite fifty six. But I just
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  Speaker 10: want the people to know that we're here for everybody.
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  Speaker 10: We're here to make this, this city a real thing.
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  Speaker 10: This is not just something that we're doing for a
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  Speaker 10: hot moment in history. Is something that we're going to
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  Speaker 10: continue to do the rest of our lives. I mean,
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  Speaker 10: this is something that we're all. We bought into this.
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  Speaker 10: We have no there's I'm not gonna say there's no
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  Speaker 10: way out, but there's really.
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  Speaker 9: Met each other with this one right here.
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  Speaker 10: There's really no way out of this, and so we
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  Speaker 10: know this is something that we're doing for the long
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  Speaker 10: run and we want everyone's support. I mean the support
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  Speaker 10: from everyone that we've been getting has actually been fueling
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  Speaker 10: us to move faster. It's like to move, you know,
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  Speaker 10: have faster and more Disney and what we were doing before.
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  Speaker 10: It's like wow, people a people are wanting us to succeed,
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  Speaker 10: and that energy is propelling us forward. So it's like, man,
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  Speaker 10: we can't lose. That's I feel.
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  Speaker 4: Ashley Kevin.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely so.
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  Speaker 7: The beautiful thing about being part of this initiative is
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  Speaker 7: that we get to pick and choose the things that
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  Speaker 7: interest us. I know, at the beginning, I was asking Ashley, so,
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  Speaker 7: so what's next on the vision.
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  Speaker 5: She's like, whatever you want to do? keV.
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  Speaker 7: I was like, whatever you want to She was like, yeah, freedom, freedom.
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  Speaker 7: So you know what, You're absolutely right. So my interests
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  Speaker 7: are specifically in sustainability, technology. You know, this is this
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  Speaker 7: is staying on the forefront of these things will propel
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  Speaker 7: us into.
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  Speaker 5: The next generation.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely, we got the land, now it's time to implement
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  Speaker 7: a lot of those things. I mean, Scott is not
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  Speaker 7: the limit, right, shout out to Jessica.
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  Speaker 2: Mobile, Jessica Enterprise.
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  Speaker 7: So for everybody that's listening, you know, if if you've
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  Speaker 7: ever you know, if you ever had those plans that
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  Speaker 7: you know, you all were saying, oh, I'll do it tomorrow,
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  Speaker 7: I'll do it next year, or you're making all of
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  Speaker 7: these excuses, you know, just stop.
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  Speaker 5: Now's the time.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we're doing it, and we didn't have the
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  Speaker 7: whole plan mapped out, you know, but by starting it,
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  Speaker 7: it's kind of forcing us to get to know each other,
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  Speaker 7: you know, how to accelerated rate. You know, all of
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  Speaker 7: the presses is forcing us to do that, learning these
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  Speaker 7: different techniques. And you know, I'm forever a student. So
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  Speaker 7: my thing is, now is the time. Don't wait tomorrow,
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  Speaker 7: don't wait next year. I mean, I never thought a
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  Speaker 7: pandemic was gonna hit.
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  Speaker 3: What is that?
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  Speaker 7: That stuff that happened not here, you know what I
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  Speaker 7: mean in the movie like, yeah, but no, here we
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  Speaker 7: are and there's a there's over two hundred thousand people
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  Speaker 7: who are no longer here with us. That's where all
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  Speaker 7: of the wealth is. They say, the wealthiest place of
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  Speaker 7: knowledge is in the graveyard. Because we don't know about it.
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  Speaker 7: You know, they they're deadn't gone, and now that knowledge
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  Speaker 7: is don't going with them. So do yourself and do
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  Speaker 7: us a favor and don't go to the grave with
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  Speaker 7: that knowledge. Let's share it this organized, let's get together.
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  Speaker 7: You have the website, it's freedom Drudgia dot com. You know,
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  Speaker 7: if technology and sustainability is your thing, you know, make
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  Speaker 7: sure that you want to come speak to Kevin. All right,
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  Speaker 7: just put that in the email and we'll respect sendail.
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  Speaker 7: We do that. You know, we're looking for volunteers. We're
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  Speaker 7: looking for people to really make this happen. So if
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  Speaker 7: this is something that you know you don't want to
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  Speaker 7: start your own, or you want to be a part of,
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  Speaker 7: or even if you want to start your own, let's
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  Speaker 7: have that conversation. So that's the thing that I would
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  Speaker 7: leave people. Let's keep the conversation going, because it really
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  Speaker 7: is all in conversation.
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  Speaker 8: All right, I agree, Kevin, and I love what you said.
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  Speaker 8: Keep the conversation going. That's what I would say. Is
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  Speaker 8: my my biggest pieces, my goal, my entire hope is
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  Speaker 8: to inspire black folks to create generational wealth and legacy
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  Speaker 8: through asset building. The biggest asset in this time is land,
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  Speaker 8: land and real estate. Listen and real estate. And the
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  Speaker 8: reality is for us to finally begin to create for
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  Speaker 8: ourselves the lives that we want. Is start art with
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  Speaker 8: generating wealth for ourselves, income.
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  Speaker 2: Streams, revenue streams.
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  Speaker 8: That give us the power and the ability to create
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  Speaker 8: and manifest the life that we deserve. So get on
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  Speaker 8: board with us. I teach a class called how to
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  Speaker 8: Buy land using group Economics.
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  Speaker 2: Email me, visit me at Ashley Scottholmes dot com.
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  Speaker 8: You can visit us at Freedomgorgia dot com and absolutely
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  Speaker 8: sign up for the Black Achievement Fund at www dot
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  Speaker 8: BAF dot solutions. And if you want to connect with me,
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  Speaker 8: I am Ashley Scott on Instagram and Facebook Ashley Scott
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  Speaker 8: kW and I love to talk about real estate, land
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  Speaker 8: and assets and business, So hit me up. I'm really
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  Speaker 8: excited to really do what we're doing and make a
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  Speaker 8: meaningful impact. I think we're about to change the world,
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  Speaker 8: particularly we're about to make a big change for Black America.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, we gotta get you to teach a class at
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, that's that. That's gonna be a good one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: your dams are gonna be blowing up.
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  Speaker 9: I would to say this too. We are going to
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  Speaker 9: be at the land tomorrow if y'all did want to
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  Speaker 9: just let you know.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, got a camera crew with us. I think maybe we.
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  Speaker 5: Will let's do it. Troy Troy housekeeping items.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I just want to say a shout to keV
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  Speaker 3: for being sitting sit next to me. They put the
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Some people think I'm ball, but I have a low caesar.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't lost my head.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, man, but before Instagram goes crazy, we are not related.
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